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from the well-known 'marine band' in tiie Middle Coal-measures 

 exposed on the banks of the River Tame at Dukinfield, Aviculopecten 

 cairnsii, Bolton, from this horizon being named in his honour. 



Further afield the Mountain Limestone areas around Castleton, 

 Derbyshire, and Clitheroe, Lancashire, came in for a large share of his 

 spare time, and by his keen perseverance he amassed a considerable 

 collection of interesting forms from both these places. 



When he began to seriously take up conch ology as his hobby the 

 exigencies of space led him to hand over e7i bloc his entire collection 

 of geological specimens to the Manchester Museum, an acquisition 

 which was gratefully accepted by the Museum authorities as a very 

 welcome addition. 



Though he could never be persuaded to write anything about his 

 varied experiences, he was ever ready to place his wide and practical 

 knowledge at the disposal of his friends. T W T 



GEORGE ATTWOOD, 



F.C.S., M.Inst.C.E., F.G.S., etc. 



Born 184S. Died February 9, 1912. 



Mr. George Attwood, J. P., who died on February 9 last at his 

 residence, Steyning Manor, Stogursey, Somerset, was the son of the 

 late Mr. Melville Attwood, F.G.S., etc., mining and civil engineer, and 

 nephew of the late Professor Edward Forbes, F.R.S., Edinburgh, 

 and David Forbes, F.R.S. Mr. Attwood was born at Carlisle in 1845, 

 and educated at Edward VI's Grammar School, Lichfield. He was 

 a member of the Institute of Civil Engineers, the Institute of Mining 

 and Metallurgj', and the American Institute of Mining Engineers ; 

 Fellow of the Geological, Chemical Faraday, and Zoological Societies, 

 and of the Societj^ of Arts ; a member of the London Chamber of 

 Commerce; and Justice of the Peace for the Province of Bi'itish 

 Columbia. He commenced his professional career at the age of 16, 

 under his father and Mr. W. W. Palmer, C.E., in California and Nevada, 

 and two years later was appointed assayer, metallurgist, and chemist 

 to the Ophir Company, Great Comstock Lode, Nevada, U.S.A. He 

 constructed and designed large metallurgical, electrical, and water 

 works, aerial tramways and railways in Nevada, California, Mexico, 

 South America, Canada, South and North Africa, and practised as 

 a consulting civil and mining engineer at 56 Moorgate Street, E.C., 

 under the name of Messrs. Attwood & Hopper. Mr. Attwood also 

 found time for considerable literary work, being author of numerous 

 scientific publications and papers on geology, mining, mining plant, 

 metallurgy, assaying, meteorology, microscopic research, etc. He 

 was one of three or four surviving male descendants of an ancient 

 Worcestershire family which came originally from Brittany, whose 

 name ' De Bois ' was anglicized into ' Attwood '. Members of the 

 family were knights of the shire as early as 1327. He married 

 first Maria Louise (who died in 1892), daughter of James Tansley, 

 F.S.A., of London, and secondly Charlotte Caroline, daughter of 

 William Burchell, late Under-Sheriff of London. 



The late Mr. Attwood was frequently called upon to advise British 



